Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Hotovely:Palestinian leaders have created a culture
of death that is motivating the latest violent terrorism.

The
latest surge of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis has come in the
immediate wake of explicit calls by the Palestinian leadership to “spill
blood.” This well-orchestrated campaign of violence follows many years in which
Palestinian children have been taught to idolize the murder of Jews as a sacred
value and to regard their own death in this “jihad” as the pinnacle of their
aspirations.

Such
violence has deep roots. It goes back to the rampages at the behest of Haj Amin
al-Husseini, a Muslim activist and at one point grand mufti of Jerusalem, in
the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. It continued with the fedayeen Palestinian militants in the 1950s and ’60s, and evolved
into the terrorism of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Fatah under
Yasser Arafat and now Mahmoud Abbas. Anyone who claims that Palestinian terror
against Jews dates only to 1967, or is a response to Israeli settlements,
should become more informed of the conflict’s history.

Yet the
apathy shown by the international community to the death-culture fostered by
Palestinian elites, and the unbalanced manner in which subsequent violence is
often treated by the international media—as if there is any kind of symmetry
between terrorists and their victims—is doing long-term, and possibly
irrevocable, harm to generations of Palestinians.

A few
recent examples underscore the depth of the problem.

Mr.
Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, said the following on Palestinian
television on Sept. 16: “We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.
This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to Allah. With the help of
Allah, every martyr will be in heaven, and every wounded will get his reward.”

Two
weeks later, on Oct. 1, Palestinian terrorists murdered an Israeli couple,
Eitam and Naama Henkin, in cold blood in front of their four children, who
ranged from 9 years old to 4 months.

Days
later, with the Henkin children still in mourning, PLO official Mahmoud Ismail
went on official Palestinian television, PBC, and proclaimed their parents’
murder to be a fulfillment of Palestinian “national duty.” He was one of
several Palestinian officials who condoned the murder.

Such
statements strike a resonant chord among generations of Palestinian children
who have been taught that Jews are the descendants of “barbaric monkeys” and
“wretched pigs” (a phrase from a poem repeatedly recited on PBC television, to
the applause of children.) They have been taught that “armed conflict” (a
common Palestinian euphemism for the murder of Jews) against “the so-called
State of Israel” is both a religious duty and an act purportedly legitimized by
the United Nations—a falsehood repeated in a number of 12th-grade Palestinian
textbooks.

The
Palestinian Authority also pays handsome stipends to terrorists and their
families, which serve as a powerful incentive to carry out acts of terror.

Is it
surprising, then, that Mr. Abbas’s explicit call for “blood on its way to
Allah” has resulted in a surge of stabbings and other attacks against Israelis?
Is it any wonder that viewers of official television recently were treated to
the sight of a Palestinian boy, dressed up in battle fatigues, telling a
smiling talk-show host of his wish to become an engineer “so that I can build
bombs to blow up all the Jews.”

The
unending stream of blood-drenched caricatures and video clips that circulate
virally through Palestinian social media is a telling indication of how
profoundly the worship of violence is entrenched in Palestinian society. So are
the many schools, city squares and sports tournaments named for
arch-terrorists.

The
cultivation of this culture of death is having devastating effects. As
Palestinian terror touches more Jewish families, Israelis, especially of the
younger generation, are increasingly resigning themselves to the fact that
Palestinian society is guided by a dramatically different set of values.

Israeli
society and Jewish tradition sanctify life. Palestinian society glorifies
death. Israeli children grow up on songs of peace and the biblical vision of
“nation shall not lift up sword against nation.” Palestinian children are
taught to hate.

Yet
there is no international outcry. No indignation at the exploitation of
Palestinian children from all the nongovernmental organizations and U.N.
agencies that profess to monitor human-rights abuses.

This is
tragic because the international community could make a practical difference.
About a third of the Palestinian Authority’s budget is financed by foreign aid.
This money is intended to develop Palestinian infrastructure and foster
economic growth, but it is being misused by the Palestinian Authority to
promote the murder of Jews and to sow destruction within Israel. The
international community can wield its influence toward a cessation of
incitement.

Turning
a blind eye to the enormous harm that the Palestinian leadership is doing to
its own people—by raising successive generations of children on blind hatred of
the Jews and Israel—is dooming these children to a bleak future. This ought to
be a compelling reason for the international community to seriously rethink the
strange tolerance it exhibits toward the Palestinian death-culture.

Changing
this culture of death is no less important for the Palestinians than for
Israel.

Transcript:Hamas cleric and TV host Sheikh Iyad Abu
Funun recently said that he would swear on the Quran “that not a single Jew
will remain on this land.” He further said: “We will not leave a single one of
you, alive or dead, on this land. By Allah, we will dig up your bones from your
graves and get them out of this country.” He was speaking on Al-Aqsa TV on
October 13, 2015.

Following are excerpts

Iyad Abu Funun: Let me
say something clearly to the Zionists, something that should reach all those
enemies – whether left-wing, right-wing, secular, religious, or extremist.
Regardless of their appearance or the color of their skin, they are on the land
of Islam, and the Muslims, on the land of the Prophet’s nocturnal journey. Any
of our enemies living on this land must understand that they have no place on
this land.

Brother,
could you bring me a copy of the Quran? I want to swear on the Quran that not a
single Jew will remain on this land. Not a single settler will remain on this
land. Absolutely not. The sheikhs who preceded me swore on the Quran [a producer hands Abu Funun a Quran] that
not a single Jew would remain on this land and that you would not win any
battle. I too swear on the Quran that by Allah the Almighty, who created the
skies above and all creatures, who sent us the Quran and the messengers, who
created Paradise and Hell, life and death, we will not leave a single Jew on
our Islamic land – no child, no adult, no settler, no soldier, nobody of
Eastern or Western origin. No Jew will remain on the land of Islam and the
Muslims.

This is
my vow on behalf of the entire Palestinian people, and of the Arab and Islamic
nation in its entirety, from East to West. If the enemies do not understand
this, they are stupid. They have not read the books of history. Go and read
them, and learn what happened between us. In the days when the Prophet Muhammad
was in Medina, the Jews of Bani Qaynuqa’, of Bani Nazir, and Bani Qurayza were
there. What did you do? You betrayed the Prophet once and did not learn your
lesson. You betrayed him a second, third, and fourth time, and did not learn
your lesson. We trampled on you time and again.

Our
nation is invincible. We are killed, martyred, wounded… When a thousand are
killed, thousands come in their place. When one commander is killed, a thousand
take his place. We are nation that cannot come to an end.

Read
the books of history carefully, and learn who were the men who were educated by
the Prophet Muhammad. Go back to the history books. When we set out to fight
the Byzantines in the battle of Mu’tah, we had 3,000 fighters, while the
Byzantine numbered 200,000. We, the men educated by the Prophet Muhammad, are
invincible. Don’t talk to me about security forces, airplanes, tanks,
intelligence agencies, about detentions, deportations, destruction of homes,
missiles… This is all meaningless. The Quran is in our hearts, and you and all
your forces cannot rip it out.

Therefore,
you should study the books of history because history repeats itself. Our
tragedies will not repeat themselves. This is where the equation ends. We and
you are on the same land, but we have our complete faith in Allah and in the
strength of the mujahideen, and will not leave a single one of you, alive or
dead, on this land. By Allah, we will dig up your bones from the graves and get
them out of this country. We will not leave any trace of you on this land.

Transcript:Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary
Jibril Rajoub recently lauded the Palestinian attackers, saying: “These are
individual acts of heroism, of which I am proud.” In the interview, which aired
on the official TV channel of the Palestinian Authority on October 17, 2015,
Rajoub further said: “We refuse to pay the bill for the Holocaust. What is
being done to us is exactly the same as what was done to the Jews in Europe.”

Following are excerpts:

Jibril Rajoub: These
are clearly individual operations, but they require heroism, courage, and a
value system, which forces the Palestinian elite and the Palestinian national
forces to see in the final words of one of those heroes, written in a blog, a
document that could be taught in schools in a lesson about the meaning of
martyrdom…

Interviewer: You
are referring to Fadi Alwan…

Jibril Rajoub: ...and
about the meaning of patriotism. This is not about factions or about personal
agendas. Today, we are at a crossroads. The Palestinian conduct on the ground,
which is characterized by a readiness for self-sacrifice… You see a soldier with
his gun fleeing a guy with a knife, or even someone empty-handed. You see a
soldier terrified by a Palestinian, merely because he is a Palestinian… The
self-confidence of this racist soldier has clearly been shaken. We should rise
to the level of that understanding, and translate it into a strategy with
goals. I believe that the confrontation between the Palestinian people and the
occupation has reached the point where coexistence is impossible.

[…]

I am
telling you that these are individual acts of heroism, of which I am proud. I
am proud of these [attacks] and I salute all the people who carried them out.
We are proud of them. We must view this in an objective and accurate way. The
various factions have greater capabilities. They are capable of carrying out
huge military operations, which would shake the whatchamcallit… But I think
that politically speaking, we do not want these operations, because our goal is
liberation and independence. We fight the occupation, but we want the
international community to be on our side.

[…]

For the
international community, it is unacceptable for a bus to explode in Tel Aviv,
but it does not care what happens to a settler or a soldier who finds himself
in the wrong place at the wrong time in the occupied land. Therefore, we must
fight in a manner that keeps the world on our side. I believe that there is a
consensus about this.

[…]

We are
4.5 million Palestinians who have been living under this racist occupation
since 1967. We refuse to pay the bill for the Holocaust. What is being done to
us is exactly the same as what was done to the Jews in Europe. We will not pay
the price. We will not be a scapegoat. But our conduct must also rise to the
occasion.[…]

Times of Israel Staff:A video
posted by a Jordanian-Palestinian teacher on Facebook shows his young daughter
holding a large knife and declaring, “I want to stab a Jew,” the watchdog group
MEMRI reported, amid an ongoing surge of stabbings and other terror attacks by
Palestinians on Israelis.

Abdulhaleem
Abuesha, a teacher in the Madaba refugee camp in Jordan, posted the clip on
Friday. MEMRI translated and highlighted it on Tuesday.

After
his daughter Rahf, standing in front of the refrigerator in the kitchen,
declares her desire to stab a Jew, Abuesha asks, “Why do you want to stab the
Jew?”

“Because
he stole our land,” she replies.

Her
father confirms approvingly: “They stole our land.” He then asks, “With what do
you want to stab them?”

“With a
knife,” she says.

Abuesha
is then heard encouraging her, saying, “Oh, you’re so strong! Allah willing, my
dear.”MEMRI
said Abuesha’s Facebook account “also features a picture of a little boy –
presumably his son – holding a large knife and smiling at the camera.”